Acer Ferrari 1000: AMD Dual Core Ultraportable
While the Ferrari 5000 is a desktop replacement notebook, the Acer Ferrari 1000 is the direct opposite: A 12.1″ ultraportable weighing around 1.7kg, equipped with on-board ATI RADEON XPRESS 1150 graphics (up to 512MB Hypermemory).
The F1000 will, like its bigger bro, come with the Acer 1.3 megapixel Orbicam, but (most likely) not with a Bluetooth VOIP phone. Other than this, we still have no idea what kind of specs we’ll be seeing in Acer’s first AMD dual-core ultraportable offering.
Oh yes, the 12.1″ screen is a glossy CrystalBrite widescreen, so glossy-haters will probably have to look elsewhere.
P.S.: We currently have no idea whether the picture attached to Acer’s news release is for the F5000 or F1000, but we’ll presume both look about the same - just different in size. Found a picture of the F1000 thanks to gweilo8888.
June 2nd, 2006 01:21
You state “We currently have no idea whether the picture attached to Acer’s news release is for the F5000 or F1000, but we’ll presume both look about the same - just different in size.”
The picture you show is the Acer Ferrari 5000, which is closely based on the TravelMate 8204WLMi. The Acer Ferrari 1000 has very different styling.
You can see pictures of both here:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=148707&page=7
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=154889
(note there’s pricing info on the second page of the second link)
June 2nd, 2006 01:29
Aiks, I thought I combed notebookreview.com and notebookforums.com already.
Thanks a lot for the info. Will edit the post ASAP.
But from the pics of the Ferarri 1000, the styling looks similar to the F5000 to me, but then, TrustedReviews only has a front-side view. How is the styling very different?Oops, I’m starting to see the differences. Need more sleep…June 2nd, 2006 03:03
Glad to help.
(And I could use sleep too!)
June 4th, 2006 06:47
[…] The previous pictures of the Acer Ferrari 1000 we saw were only of the front-side of the system, leading us (or rather, me) to conclude that it wouldn’t be very much different styling-wise compared to the Ferrari 5000. […]
June 20th, 2006 09:52
[…] This 12.1″ widescreen ultraportable was hinted at around a month back, but only today was it officially announced by Dell. Featuring a Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Intel Core Solo U1300 (1.06GHz) processor, it will probably be slightly weaker performance-wise in comparison with Acer’s upcoming 12.1″ offering, the Ferrari 1000 (AMD Turion 64 X2). Of course, this will only be the case if Acer decides to ramp up the GHz on their model. […]
July 12th, 2006 06:33
[…] Acer launches yet another AMD Turion 64 X2-powered notebook, but this time it’s part of the Aspire series. While the previous two Turion 64 X2 notebooks introduced by Acer were flashy (this probably deserves a Duh! given that their Acer Ferraris), the Aspire 5100 looks pretty much the average Acer notebook - both specs and design-wise. […]